UNC alum, professor Hobson to discuss book

Posted Nov 10, 2007

UNC alumnus and professor Fred Hobson, who played on the freshman basketball team with Billy Cunningham in the early 1960s, discusses his book Off the Rim: Basketball and Other Religions In a Carolina Childhood Sunday night at 5:00 on UNC-TV's North Carolina Bookwatch. "In this episode, Hobson shares his story of a boyhood that never ends, relived each year during basketball season in the frantic, tortured life of a fan."
(UNC-TV)

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